Amy Winehouse on her wedding day in Miami, Florida. The exhibition publicity references the significant 20th century fashion photographer, Cecil Beaton, saying, “Cecil Beaton, …, remembered the revolutionary feeling in photography when female models were allowed to spread their feet apart—even a little. Prior etiquette demanded that the two feet touch.”

Albert Watson, LLCool J, 1992 (printed 2009). Inkjet print.

Here Albert Watson casts a sepia bust of LLCoolJ in the same iconic portaryal that he often casts fashion and pop figures.

Getting a bit o’ art cultural reflective reference always pays off as in Andy Earl’s cover art for Bow Wow Wow. In recreating Edouard Manet’s, then controversial painting, painting of 1863, “Le déjeuner sur l’herbe” (The Luncheon on the Grass), some of the heat of public shock is hoped to transfer to the present. It does, and with such, uh, flash!

Throughout rock photography’s history, often, the most striking shots are those where the object of iconography is seen out of context. It seems to bring the Olympian pop gods down into the street, where they might commune with us mortals, such as in this shot of Dylan on the street. It’s like when we, as schoolchildren, espy one of our teachers at the deli counter, or on line at a movie. How thrilling!

I couldn’t write about the above shot without feeling it as mildly reminiscent of this cover of “The Free Wheelin’ Bob Dylan.”